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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller
I believe that no endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller
Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.
Edward Teller
There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
Edward Teller
We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.
Edward Teller
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller
I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
Edward Teller
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.
Edward Teller
The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.
Edward Teller
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
Edward Teller
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.
Edward Teller
No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller.
Edward Teller
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Edward Teller
My name is not Strangelove. I don't know about Strangelove. I'm not interested in Strangelove. What else can I say?... Look. Say it three times more, and I throw you out of this office.
Edward Teller
A stands for atom; it is so small No one has ever seen it at all. B stands for bombs; the bombs are much bigger. So, brother, do not be too fast on the trigger. F stands for fission; that is what things do When they get wobbly and big and must split in two. And just to confound the atomic confusion What fission has done may be undone by fusion. H has become a most ominous letter; It means something bigger, if not something better. S stands for secret; you can keep it forever - Provided there's no one abroad who is clever.
Edward Teller
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Edward Teller
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
Edward Teller
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Edward Teller
It is not even impossible to imagine that the effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons and pushed by the utmost determination will endanger the survival of man.
Edward Teller
If we could have ended the war by showing the power of science without killing a single person, all of us would now be happier, more reasonable and much more safe.
Edward Teller
When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Edward Teller
I don't want to kill anybody. I am passionately opposed to killing, but I'm even more passionately fond of freedom.
Edward Teller
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